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30 paź 2023 · The abducens (or abducent) nerve is the sixth paired cranial nerve (CN VI). Along with the oculomotor nerve (CN III) and the trochlear nerve (CN IV), it is a purely motor nerve responsible for controlling movement of the eyeball.
The abducens nerve or abducent nerve, also known as the sixth cranial nerve, cranial nerve VI, or simply CN VI, is a cranial nerve in humans and various other animals that controls the movement of the lateral rectus muscle, one of the extraocular muscles responsible for outward gaze.
13 mar 2019 · The abducens nerve is the sixth paired cranial nerve. It has a purely somatic motor function – providing innervation to the lateral rectus muscle. In this article, we shall look at the anatomy of the abducens nerve – its anatomical course, motor functions and clinical relevance.
21 lis 2022 · Cranial nerve six (CN VI), also known as the abducens nerve, is 1 of the nerves responsible for the extraocular motor functions of the eye, along with the oculomotor nerve (CN III) and the trochlear nerve (CN IV).
24 sie 2023 · The abducens nerve, the sixth cranial nerve (CN VI), is responsible for ipsilateral eye abduction. Dysfunction of the abducens nerve can occur at any point of its transit from the pons to the lateral rectus muscle, resulting in sixth nerve palsy.
12 lip 2023 · Abducens nerve. The abducens nerve (CN VI) is also a paired cranial nerve whose fibers innervate the lateral rectus muscle (another extraocular muscle). Therefore the abducens nerve function is to move the eyeball laterally on the horizontal plane.
The abducens nerve (cranial nerve VI) is a somatic efferent nerve that, in humans, controls the movement of a single muscle: the lateral rectus muscle of the eye that moves the eye horizontally. In most other mammals it also innervates the musculus retractor bulbi, which can retract the eye for protection.
